Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24
THE NEWS.

| pointed Postmaster at Cleveland.
Judge Church took the oath of Office
as Governor of Dakota Thursday.
A half interest in the trotting stallion,
Harry Wilkes, has been sold for $4,000.
VIM A Wilson, prominent lawyer of
Lancaster, Pa, committed suicide, last
| week.
The federal grand jury at st. Louis
returned % indictments for election
frauds.
| Thos C Glera Is in jail at Fremont, O.,
charged with forging his fathers sig>
nature.
The cattle on the ranges in Montana
are dying by the thousands from the
hard winter.
Another passenger rate war of rail-
roads leading west from New York,
seems imminent.
| Under the Kentucky law VIM Dodson
a vagrant, will be sold at Augusta. ae-
cording to his wish.
A call has been issued for a convent
tion at Chicago to form new National
Trotting Association.
| 1t is said the President has asked
Smith M Weed, of New York, to accept
the Treasury portfolio.
The police commissioners of Cincin-
| natl will prosecute owners of property
1 used as gambling headquarters.
The Ohio Valley Cattle-gruwers As
sociation will hold its great tat stock
show in Cincinnati next December.
The West Virginia Legislature has
passed joint resolution to submit
prohibition amendment to the people.
The Guion Line steamer Wisconsin,
went ashore at Fire Island, but was
hOated off. Her rudder post was broken.
James eastman was arrested In st
Louis on. the charge of attempting to
lassassinate Judge Fitzgerald, of Gins
Icinnati.
| The President has vetoed the bill ap-
propriating $4,000 for the distribution
of seeds to the drouth-stricken counties
of Texas.
The New York senate by vote of 20
ayes TO 9 nays passed bill granting
women the right to vote in municipal
elections.
Judge Thomas NJ Joseph, Treasurer
of the Texas Grand Lodge l. o. o. F.,
eonfesses to shortage of $2S, l85 in his
accounts.
The naked trunk of man, wrapped
/ 10 paper, was found on the edge of a
pond at Eddington, Pa. The body had
been dead "a hours.
Major ] S Penn, proprietor of the
Laredo Times, has been adiudged vic /
/ ~, - 7insaue BE is brother-in-law of
Ex-Governor Ireland.
ssEdward Unger, on trial in New York
| for the murder of Louis Bohle, gave
dramatic account in court of the killing,
claiming self-defense.
1t is stated that English agents are
quietly buying large numbers of horses
in the Middle States for use In Great
Britain in case of war.
Knights of Labor In West Virginia
are opposing the reelection of Senator
Camoen, who is charged with being a
Standard Oil Co., monopolist.
The G. A. R. State Encampment of L.
linois passed a resolution demanding
this Congress to pass the dependent PEN
sion bill over the Presidents veto.
Sister Genevieve. the Superior for 20
years of the st. Francis de Sales Con
vent, Newark, O.. has discarded her
robes, and returned to her relatives.
A Atwo-and. a-half counterfeit gold coin
pronounced one of the most dangerous
bogus gold pieces ever made, has been
discovered at the Philadelphia Mint.
Four masked men broke into the resi-
dence of John Bott, Of Oakland town.
ship, Pa, bound and maltreated him
and robbed the house of $500 in cash.
The Cooperative Interment Co., has
been organized in Cincinnati, to enable
people to bury their dead at less expense
than the ordinary undertakers' charges.
DR. Charles M Wilson, Washington
c Fl, O., has been indicted-on criminal
charge of administering an overdose Of
Thomas Godfrey, who died from its
effects.
Nineteen stores at Portsmouth, n Fl,
were entered by burglars Tuesday, and
the enterprising crooks secured fifty
dollars in money and about 81 worth
of goods.
| Sixty-four trotting horses and colts
were sold at Lexington, KY, last week,
the aggregate sum being SSO,6O5. A
yearing son of Harry Wilkes famous
trotter, brouhht S2,650.
The colored man, Jack Purdy, who
confessed to an assault upon Miss NJ. 8.
Robinson,sthe authoress, in New York
has been sentenced to 20 years impris>
onment In Sing Sing.
The general expression of the G A R
men throughout the country concerning
the dependent pension bill is that 1t
should become law notwithstanding
the Objectionable features.
The New York Presbytery passed res
olutioOs condemning loose views touch
ing the inspiration of the Scriptures
that have become current in certain
parts of the Christian church.
At Clyde, o., burglars entered the
home of E T Getting In his absence,
knocked his wife senseless on the floor
ransacked the house and took away
$1,000 in paper and gold money.
A company with million dollars cap
ital has been Incorporated at Baltimore
for making cheap illuminating gas from
crude petroleum, the residue being a
merchsntable article of refined petros
leum.
Sir Lionel West. British Minister at
Washington. is reported as saying that
he does not anticipate any trouble what
ever between Great Britain and the
United States concerning the fishery
question.
George Little, resident of Sareoxie.
Mo, while wsiting for train at Garth
age, Mo-, was set upon by gang of
toughs, and received blow upon the
tamnla whick aavarad an artorV and ha